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LAT Awards Honor Ozeki, Fink, Bulawayo, and Rowling; ALA’s Most Challenged

April 12, 2014
By Sarah Weinman

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Friday night. They include:

Fiction
Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking)

First Fiction
NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books)

Current Interest
Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial (Crown)

Biography
Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator (Simon & Schuster)

Mystery/Thriller
J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling (Mulholland)

Other winners included Ulli Lust (Graphic Novel/Comics); Christopher Clark (History); Ron Padgett (Poetry); Alan Weisman (Science & Technology); and Gene Luen Yang (YA).

Next up are the Pulitzer prizes, set to be announced Monday afternoon at 3:00.

James Patterson will receive the Chicago Tribune’s Young Adult Literary Award, created “to honor an author’s achievements in children’s literature and celebrate the power of well-written prose to change kids’ lives.”

Also, the ALA released their annual list of the most challenged books of the year, with Dav Pilkey taking the top slot for the second year in a row:

Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, by Tanya Lee Stone
Looking for Alaska, by John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
Bone (series), by Jeff Smith

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